ace888

Hello All,

It is great to see new members contributing to this awesome community.  I wish I have the time to work on projects and even play the SF2! 

This thread is to thank our long time community member, modeler, and a great friend 'Logan4' 

I have to look up the original modeler for this beautiful F-5E (on the other computer), so far the most accurate (test photos).  I did some modifications and worked on the templates.  Logan made all the necessary accessories (fake pilot) for the various air forces/navy/marine/private contractor.  His F-5E fuel tank is being contributed for the IIRAN Mirage F1...

Thanks to Dave, Fates, Erik, MK2 and all the people involved for keeping this webpage alive and available all these years... and many more years to come!  Thank you.

From 125 Studio... https://125studio.tistory.com/

Hello All...  Back in 2015, Talking to JAT81500 and dtmdgradon, we were discussing the issue that I felt would be nice if we can fixed it.  That is the outer pylon on all the Team Viper F-16s are angle incorrectly.  If anyone can take the time to fix the angle of the outer pylon that would be great!

On 4/20/2020 at 8:18 AM, ravenclaw_007 said:

 

i will try but for the moment you can use the existing F-4E cockpits ( early or late ) that i made for my RF-4E pack

 

Thank you Sir... appreciated

2 hours ago, ravenclaw_007 said:

first test flight of the F-4G_87_SPW (single piece windshild ) , there are 4 F-4G who were flying with that single pice windshild this are the 69-065 / 69-0273 / 69-0298 and 69-7263 , i made new aircraft and cockpit model for this 4 aircrafts

As always... magnificent work!  Do you plan to do the same for some of the F-4E and RF-4C?

On 12/31/2019 at 3:24 PM, russouk2004 said:

anyone know what this does /...cant find info on this item

 I think small probe on rudder its an anti flutter/trim  sensor...

When I was doing my mod ... did not find any info. at the time.  

It is not a light of any kind... Some from of sensors...

Excellent to see that you are getting as many of the details as possible!

Please consider the following...

Like I have said... excellent work!  You do have a very long list! 

Hopefully you can update all of Marcelo's Flankers... not sure what you have?  But he practically did all of them...  If you can add  the Su-27UB and the Su-33  (you did play with it in the past)  that would be nice.  If you do have them all... your consideration will be appreciated.

A Su-27S and Su-27UB would be ideal...

Thanks again for doing the work!!!

Cheers!

Happy to know that Russouk is refurbishing the old Su-27.  I hope he will make the J-11A/B/BH to be added to the list.

Nice work Russouk!  You should just redo the entire fighter... Pitot, Ants., blisters, etc.

I have this project for 5 years and I have not work on it for a very long time.

Thank you Russouk...

Soulfreak,

Unfortunately I do not... I lost a lot of my stuff when my computer went tango uniform early this year.  I will check to see if I had it on my back up external drive?

Thank you all...

Soulfreak... yes, I already have those, thanks

Hello All,

This project started in November 2015!  I started to share this project with two other guys Logan4 and Heberth around March of 2016.  And here we are...

First I want to thank the following individuals: Logan4 for the 3ds Max issues and Florian for showing me the slimmer technique.  I want to thank Mue for his valuable tool program for making this project easier.  Of course, thanks to Marcelo for his Su-27 model (I believe it is a 2007 model) so it is a old model but still useful.

I will get to the point...   I wanted to finish this project by 2016.  Will, as you can see, there is still plenty to do before it is consider finish.  The reasons are the same - time, family, work, interest, and anything else you can think of.

The model is old and has issues with its UVMap and so a lot of items need to be modify or change just to make it close to what I wanted.  So, any issues you will eventually see... most likely I already know.  Now due to time and interest, at this point, I just want to finish it. 

There are plenty of issues and errors in this Mod but I am OK with it.  Example: the MAWS on the forward fuselage of the J-11A_Upgrade is in the wrong position and the size could be bigger.  My mistake was making the fake pilot mod before I made the new template and try to fit it in the proper place.  However, using the old template and the size of the aircraft model, the position is pretty close... it is just the way the model was made that made it hard to fit in the right place.  Anothere was the J-11B_AL-31F's top shield for the HUD was deleted, it was meant to be this way.  The initial J-11B was to have a new hud and cockpit with AL-31F engines.  It turns out that the eventual first J-11B was with a Holographic HUD and AL-31F engines.  I just included that model for fun.  Another example:  The right main inner wheel well is not UV unwrap, so you are going to see the lower right wing textures instead, I did try to locate it using the Mue's tool... it is not there.  Another example:  The way the model was UV unwrapped, there are plenty of areas where it will "bleed" into different shapes.   What I meant by that is... if you place a line (as in a panel line or a rivet) you will not see the panel line or the rivet... what you will see is a stretch mark or a blended or distorted line or spots of color.  So things like these is what you are going to see as errors.  Basically - size, shape, position, etc. will be adjusted as needed to make it look ok or fit.  Finishing up the panel lines, making the stencils, markings, and adjusting the aircraft, etc...

Thanks to CombatAce for being here and for its continuing support of the community for FREE!  I thank CA for all the wonderful toys we get to play with!

Hopefully I will finish this thing...

Cheers!

Ace888

Dels, awesome workmanship as expected...!  A great addition.

Mue, thank you for your update and congrats on the new house.

If you can make your #1 to work... that would be a great asset!

Del,

I have yet to fly your superb Herc fleet, but I have no doubt that it is excellent in everyway!

Cheers!

yunped

Good for you that you made a statement.  I was going to make a post but you already beat me to it.

Between the two thread post (one here on the general discussion and the other being on the screen shot thread).  I ask kindly to all members?  Who are we to quickly to judge the lack of authenticity of someone's work?  

One cannot assume that someone is incapable-of or did not do the work because they are not a member, have not being a member for a long time, or show no historical timeline of the work involved?  

You cannot assume the worst of people based on what happen in the past.... the past of plagiarism by some people and post their stuff on CA.

Also, great skill and artist comes from many different background and ethnicity.  CAUCASIANS are not the only people on this planet.  Modders does not exist just in North America or in Europe.

Just because the bad Chines and some other ethnic group did the wrong deed of copying other's work... does not mean that all Chinese or the other ethnic group are all bad people.

Stop being ignorant and stupid.  Prior to this post, I did a little checking and PM work.... and discovered what "yunped" already stated.  He contributed to this community in the past by making the KF-1 and KF-2.  Funny, back then no one criticize his work or motive?   In fact, many prominent modders congratulate him and thank him for the upload.

I am certain "yunped" did not have any bad intent to make people pay his work from this website, but to promote his work on his own website.  Yes, CA is an excellent site for FREE items being uploaded from great artist from all over the world and lets always be appreciative and be thankful for it.

But there is nothing wrong of someone wanting to be compensated for his work.  If you like something and think the price is right, you will pay for it to get it... 

I want to thank the founders of CA and ALL who have contributed to this great website... Combatace!!!

Thank you all

Just saw this, can't wait to get home and give her a spin!

Excellent workmanship Florian!

Thank you.    

Jat, thanks for the avionics update!  

Florian, thank you... I see your Map section of the Material Editor.  Almost understand it now...  Heading to work, I will get back to you in a few days via PM and send you a short setup.

Thank you very much.

are u using selfilluminating modifier on material ?

Yes, I have tried that... no go.

To clarify this, the slimers DO show up in game, but are just not glowing?

The settings in 3ds Max have to been set exactly like this, or they won't work.

I'm not sure if there is a hard coded limit to prevent pilot models to use the self- illumination, but when you use these settings, things should get clear. If it works, there is no limit, if not, then there is some kind of hard coded border. 

 

Florian, thanks for the example...  However, I am not sure what I am suppose to look for on your "exact" setup that you have posted?  Do I have to "unwrap UVW" to see the result?  Because so far I have just completed all the parts that I wanted and wanted to add the "slimmers" alone with it...

I do want the slimmer to "glow" not just show up on the game.  

Just to let you know, my 3d Max skill is still pretty low on ability...

I have tried to make a functioning slimmer using the fake pilot.  Unfortunately it does not show up glowing at all once place in game.  Does anyone know for sure making a slimmer using the fake pilot method does not work?

The glow does show up when I render it... but not in game.

Thank You

Thanks MigMaster, I am trying to find the information you spoke of...

If anyone has an idea about my situation I am all ears...?

I have not play DCS for a very long time.  I had to reformat my computer, the files were deleted.  

When I bought a series of games from Eagle Dynamics.  The versions were the 1.2.7 and the 1.2.10???

I bought: FC3, A-10C, UH-1H, KA-50, and CA  

Thinking I want to get back to the game, I try to reinstall them... UNABLE.  And somehow the new website does not have my purchase history or licensing available?

My assumptions is... that the games that I bought are now useless... unless I buy them again with the new level at 1.5.2?

I assume you have the Max files?  Would it be possible that you just do all of the "variants" for all the users of the Mirage 2000?  This way, no need to use the "fake pilot method"

Thanks Russouk

Eder6,

Not sure what the cause it?  It works good with my installed...  I had issues before where I was unable to lock or fire a BVR on a target, but I believe it is the game and not the install?  Because after rebooting the issue went away?

As for firing at a friendly, did you use the Y key to lock on your blue force?  Again, I do not know what the issue is?  I am able to kill my blue force...

The RWR warning should work, it is in your Cockpit folder under the RWR folder with the RWR.LST.  You might want to go to each of the aircraft avionic.ini and scroll down until you reach [RWR], on the last line... try to change the RWR.lst to RWR. LST, it should not make a difference but at this point anything is possible?

Again, I find it, at times, it is not the file but the game itself on the computer; plus it is a BETA and there is a chance I have missed something as stated on my readme.

Cheers

I need to do an update when time permits...

Volker and the support team, "Danke sehr"... it is "herrliche!!!"